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From: "HDtracks Press" To: "jeevacation®gmail.com" <jeevacation®gmail.com> Subject: HDtracks Newsletter for 11.18.10 Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 23:22:28 +0000 HDtracks Newsletter for 11.18.10 Ray Charles, now on HDTracks.com in stunning 96kHz/24bit High Def. It's True. Genius Loves Company For the first time ever, Ray Charles' eight-time Grammy®-winning masterpiece Genius Loves Company is available in High Definition, and it's only available on HDTracks.com! "The thrill of being in Ray's life is one of music's greatest adventures. I'm so glad it has a new life. He is an American treasure and was on his game till the last note." -Phil Ramone, producer, Genius Loves Company Featured Album Winner of the 2004 Grammy® Awards for: • Record of the Year • Album of the Year • Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) • Best Gospel Performance • Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals • Best Pop Vocal Album • Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical • Best Surround Sound Album Genius Loves CompanyjNEW 96kHzJ24bit) Ray Charles Genius Loves Company stands as a remarkable hallmark in a legendary career. A twelve-time Grammy® Award-winner and an original inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Ray Charles, who has appeared on more than 250 recordings, is a true titan of 20th century music. On the multiple Grammy®-winning Genius Loves Company, Ray sings a dozen duets with a dazzling array of guest artists from virtually every genre, who have won a combined 79 Grammy® Awards, including Elton John, Van Morrison, Gladys Knight, B.B. King, Diana Krall, Willie Nelson, James Taylor, Natalie Cole, Bonnie Rait, and more. In addition to the EFTA00779917 extraordinary music, the album is an audiophile's dream. The first ever recipient of the Best Surround Sound Album category, the record features production credits by some of the industry's greatest (John Burk, Teny Howard, Phil Ramone, and Ed Thacker to name a few) and truly astonishing sonic engineering by Al Schmitt, Robert Hadley, Doug Sax, and more. Presented here in 96kHz/24bit, this already spectacular album takes on an entirely new level of clarity and nuance. New 96kHz/24bit titles from CSO Resound and Velut Luna ;ti Rt, STRAUSS: Ein Heldenleben / WEBERN: Im spin (NEW 96kHz/24bit) Sommerwind (NEW 96kHz/24bit) Leonora Armellini Chicago Symphony Orchestra I Bernard Haitink Velut Luna CSO Resound At only 16 years of age, Italian piano prodigy "Haitink worked his customary miracles on Leonora Armellini has accomplished more than behalf of Richard Strauss and the CSO gave most musicians accomplish in a lifetime. She's him what it always gives him: superb and the recipient of multiple international deeply felt playing." —Chicago Tribune performance prizes, including the prestigious Venice Prize, the Adriano Lincetto Prize, and the This album from the Chicago Symphony Pentagram Award. On this Velut Luna release, Orchestra, considered one of the world's greatest Armellini takes on the virtuosic work of Fryderyk Strauss ensembles, features Ein Heldenleben (A Chopin—some of the most beautiful (and Hero's Life) whose US premiere it gave in 1900. difficult) music in the Romantic piano music On this fantastic live recording, Principal repertoire. Pristine recording quality, magnificent Conductor Bernard Haitink leads with restraint performances, and of course Chopin's and allows the strings and woodwinds to sing. In unparalleled keyboard writing make for a true the famous Battle Scene, the brass and percussion gem of an album. roar, while concertmaster Robert Chen plays his violin solos depicting Strauss's wife with tender beauty. Webern's early tone poem fin Sommenvind, also included on the recording, is indebted to Strauss's rhapsodic romanticism, overflowing with spacious melodies. New 96kHz/24bit titles from Cheskt• and Son lines EFTA00779918 La Voz (NEW 96kHz/24bit) Circles and Calligrams (NEW 96kHz/24bit) Xiomara Laugart Benoit Delbecq Chesky Songlines The amazing Cuban singer recorded with "Plenty of forward-thinking jazz pianists have Chesky's minimal micing. been painted with a modern-classical brush, but few have approached improvisation armed "We should call Xiomara Laugart simply 'La with the manual vocabularies demanded by Voz'-the Voice. She is one of the few singers Cage, Ligeti and the like with the same not just in Cuban musk, but in any musk, to diligence and flair as Parisian keyboardist pull off an a capella performance with all the Delbecq."—Time Out New York depth and nuance of a full band." -Herman Portocarero Delbecq's second solo piano record on Songlines showcases his brilliance at its most concentrated La Voz is a brilliant Latin Jazz album from the and is an essential companion to his trio releases. amazing Grammy-nominated Cuban vocalist Delbecq's style extends the resources of the piano Xiomara Laugart. Backed by a spectacularly tight with an array of preparations that he works band of piano, two basses, percussion, Turkish seamlessly into his playing, improvising Autoharp, and saxophone, Xiomara's silky, sultry interlocking vamps and lines that make it sound vocals are infused with the sounds of old Cuba. like more than one instrument. His melodic- Her voice winds wonderfully around syncopated harmonic constructions demonstrate a very saxophone lines, and slippery upright bass, individual combination of tonality and dissonance moving between an almost conversational vocal that will certainly appeal to fans of modem jazz delivery and ultra-melodic, seductive singing and contemporary classical. ("Anorado Encuentro" is particularly awe- inspiring). A wonderfully emotive record, captured in pristine 96kHz/24bit, La Voz is a must-have for fans of smooth vocal jazz, impeccable musicianship, and masterful Cuban rhythms. u. Hear the Difference AND Make a Difference! You'll save 10% off your entire purchase of anything in our catalog and HDTracks.com will also donate an additional 10% of your total purchase to help support music people who've fallen on hard times, need help recovering from natural disasters, are in need of medical treatment or addiction recovery resources, and so much more through the music industry's most important safety-net charity, MusiCares®! You'll save 10%, and MusiCares® will get an EFTA00779919 additional 10% when you use the discount code naras, now through midnight November 30, 2010. Other Grammy® Album of the Year winners The winner of five Grammy® awards, including 2008 Album of the Year, Raising Sand marked a ground-breaking, inter- generational collaboration between rock icon Robert Plant and acclaimed bluegrass/country singer and fiddler Alison Krauss. In addition to producing and performing, T Bone Burnett handpicked each of the album's covers, including songs by The Everly Brothers, Sam Phillips, and Gene Clark. A gorgeous and heartfelt country-twinged performance, Raising Sand breathes new life into these classic songs and shows all parties involved at an artistic pinnacle. Raising Sand (96kHz/24bit) 2008 Album of the Year Alison Krauss I Robert Plant c it On River: The Joni Letters, the legendary pianist, innovator, and twelve-time Grammy® winner Herbie Hancock explores the words and music of another musical pioneer, Joni Mitchell. River: The Joni Letters won Album of the Year and Best Contemporary Jazz Album at the 2008 Grammy® Awards. It was the first jazz album to win Album of the Year in 43 years. The album features duets with Norah Jones, Tina Turner, Corinne Bailey Rae, Luciana Souza, Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell herself. River: The Joni Letters 2007 Album of the Year (96kHz/24bit) Herbie Hancock One of the all-time great jazz albums, Getz/Gilberto won Album of the Year, Best Jazz Instrumental and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical at the 1965 Grammy® Awards. The single "The Girl from Ipanema" (featuring vocals from Joao's ex-wife Astrud) also won for Best Record of the Year. Released in 1964, Getz/Gilberto brought together American saxophonist Stan Getz and Brazilian guitarist JoAo Gilberto, and also features Antonio Carlos Jobim on piano. The album spent 96 weeks on the charts and remains one of the best selling jazz albums of all time. Getz/Gilberto (96kHz/24bit) 1964 Album of the Year Stan Getz I Jo5o Gilberto EFTA00779920 Rock Mud The BBC Sessions Eszter Balint Belle And Sebastian "Balint has succeeded in recording the young "A chronological set of live in-studio musical year's most quirky and compelling album."— snapshots, THE BBC SESSIONS illustrates Billboard this Scottish septet's organic and determined rise to soft-spoken fame."—Billboard Eszter Balint's Bar None debut Mud falls partway between city and country, with Eszter's cool-as- Easily one of the most important bands of the last concrete vocals in striking contrast to an austere two decades, Belle And Sebastian remain an ever- roots-rock sound redolent of dank swamps and present influence on modem rock. While other remote juke joints. Part blues-y singer-songwriter, rock groups of the decade delivered music part raunchy rock, this is a supremely enjoyable drenched with angst and distortion, the Scottish album. It's artful and mysterious and it draws you duo recorded quiet, impossibly tuneful numbers in like a whispered conversation from across a indebted to 1960s pop and folk. Issued in 2008, dimly lit bar. Call it Americana-gone-bad; if this collection presents a fine set of live-in the Gillian Welch were backed by, say, Arto Lindsay, studio BBC radio sessions by the group. The it might sound something like this. album stands up among the group's best studio work and is a fantastic introduction to their sleepy brand of dream-pop. Country and Bluegrass intry Music (96kHz/24bit) Breakdown Willie Nelson Old & In The Way EFTA00779921 "A welcome and spirited return to Nelson's In the 1970's, the bluegrass super group Old & In first love of classic country."—The Boston The Way introduced bluegrass to a new and wider Globe audience. Led by The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia and mandolin virtuoso David Grisman, the With Country Music, Willie Nelson goes back to band brought new life and flavor to the genre his roots with a songbook of classic Americana. with their mix of originals, traditional bluegrass Recorded in Nashville, TN and produced by the songs, and covers of bands like The Rolling legendary T Bone Burnett (who also co-arranged Stones. The live album Breakdown, released in three songs), the album includes a Nelson 1973, was the band's third release and features original, "Man With The Blues," as well as fresh astonishing instrumental prowess and vocal takes on a number of classic folk and country harmonies on bluegrass classics like "Panama songs including Ernest Tubb's "Seaman's Blues" Red" and "Muleskinner Blues" and the Garcia- and The Delmore Brothers' "Freight Train penned originals "Old & In The Way Boogie." Country Music features a number of Breakdown" and "Jerry's Breakdown." stellar collaborators, including old-time banjo master Riley Baugus, double bassist Dennis Crouch, and T Bone himself, all musicians featured on the Grammy- winning Raising Sand by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. Hidden Treasures A new section of our newsletter devoted to interesting music off the beaten path from the depths of the HDtracks collection. Coward Xenakis: Works for Piano Nels Cline Charles Peltz I Jane Peters I Society For New Music I Aki Takahashi "...an instrumental masterpiece, further positioning Cline as one of today's most open- This is the first time Xenakis' complete works for minded composers, players and musical solo piano have been collected on a single disc. conceptualists." - John Kelman, Downbeat They are brilliant, virtuoso masterworks of the 20th century piano literature, whose characteristic Nels Cline is the lead guitarist for the hugely traits can be described as "clouds," "sound successful, Grammy®-winning rock group Wilco masses," "nebulae" and galaxies - sounds that are and one of the seminal figures of avant jazz in the highly expressive and compelling, marked by last 3 decades. Recently named a "Guitar God" both the composer's heart and brain. Diabolically by Rolling Stone, here Cline presents a brilliant difficult to play, Xenakis himself considered the solo CD that covers an extraordinarily broad album's first song, Evryali, to be "...a kind of range of musical styles, with a surprising acoustic athletics for hands, body and brain". Its sheer sensibility. The provocative title belies the virtuosity and the brilliantly full sound embraces intensely personal nature of this album which the extreme registers of the keyboard. A fantastic demonstrates a daring musicianship and a EFTA00779922 willingness to take musical and emotional risks. introduction to one of the greatest composers of Coward blends improvisation and composition the 20th century. with a huge and constantly changing emotional and timbral palette. Coward is a musical tour de force. Englaborn Asmodeus: Book Of Angels Volume 7 Johann Johannsson Marc Ribot I John Zom "Music in theater has the capacity to reveal Three of the most intense musicians on the planet the sublime in the mundane, and the best thing come together in one of the most explosive and about Englaborn, a consummate walkabout rockin' ensembles around. Conducted/composed album, is its capacity to do the same thing in by avant jazz hero John Zorn, I can guarantee that real life."—Brian Howe, Pitchfork (8 out of 10) you've never heard anything quite like this before. Backed by Trevor Dunn (Fantomas, On his debut solo album, Englaborn, Icelandic Moonchild) on bass and the legendary G.Calvin composer Johann Johannsson presents a gorgeous Weston (Omette Coleman, James Blood Ulmer) set of string-and-piano-led pieces that were on drums, guitar hero Marc Ribot plays like never created to complement a stage play of the same before. Referencing Hendrix, Sharrock, name. Sad and lovely, the chamber-music McLaughlin, Ulmer and more, the music takes on aesthetic that Johannsson has meticulously a whole new dimension. Passionate and powerful, established is occasionally altered by the this is one of the most compelling installments in presence of heavily treated vocals (see "Odi Et the entire Masada series and contains some of Amo") or programmed beats ("Salfraeoingur"), Ribot's wildest and best playing ever. This CD resulting in an inventive and elegiac record. will blow your mind. HDtracks' #1 Best Seller of the Week • Stunning 96kHzI24bit remastering • Bonus disc of live recordings, demos, B-sides, and unreleased material, including an alternate take of "Refuge" • Liner notes by legendary rock journalist David Fricke • A booklet of rare photos and lyrics for each of the songs EFTA00779923 Damn The Torpedoes (Deluxe Edition) • Click here for a special sale price (NEW 96kHz/24bit) Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers One of the most highly acclaimed albums of the 1970s, Damn the Torpedoes remains a steadfast on plenty of "all time greatest" lists. Rolling Stone ranked it in their "500 greatest albums of all time" and MOJO placed it in their "70 from the 1970's" list. Widely regarded as the band's magnum opus, the album spent 7 weeks on the Billboard chart, yielded two massive singles, "Don't Do Me Like That" and "Refuge," and has sold over 10 million copies. At last, the album is given a much-deserved full reissue treatment, including 96kHzJ24bit remastering and a bonus disc including previously unreleased studio material (including the gem "Nowhere"), two B-sides, demos, and three searing live tracks from a 1980 performance at London's Hammersmith Odeon. 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